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Mosheim store
Photo courtesy Elicia Cook, September 2017 |
History in
a Pecan Shell
The town formerly
known as Live Oak was settled in the 1850s with Jonathan Dansby
given as an early (if not the first) settler.
A man named Jeff Howard built the first store in 1886 and submitted
the name Mosheim for a post office which was granted the following
year.
In 1896 Mosheim had fifty people, a school, and several businesses.
The population went from 171 in 1904, to 100 by 1925 and then reached
its zenith in 1941 with 200 Mosheimers. It remained close to 200 until
the late 1960s when it declined to 75. The town lost its post office
in 1976. |
The ruin of Mosheim
school building has collapsed,
September 2021
Photo courtesy Brianna Thomas, September 2021 |
Mosheim School,
September 2017
Photo courtesy Elicia Cook, September 2017 |
The Mosheim School
in 2016. The roof has collapsed.
Photo courtesy Bill Rigney, April 2016 |
Another view
of the Mosheim School with collapsed roof
Photo courtesy Bill Rigney, April 2016 |
Mosheim School
in 2012
Photo courtesy Bill Rigney, February 2012 |
Merry-go-round
Photo courtesy Elicia Cook, September 2017 |
Mosheim
rock building
Photo courtesy Elicia Cook, September 2017 |
Mosheim
rock building
Photo courtesy Elicia Cook, September 2017 |
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